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Do YOU Want To See The Evidence On The ‘Digg Patriots’?

The ‘Digg Patriots’ controversy throughout the Internet and the comment threads has taken a course of its own as one side blames the other. Tonight on “Banned On the Web”: a few members of the ‘Digg Patriots’ were interviewed

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One person in particular claims to have never read the email until recently when this story broke on Alternet. That said, I’ll clue her in. The very last DP email sent when the story broke said, “WE’VE BEEN EXPOSED!” after which within minutes, their site closed down along with their Yahoo group.


It’s simple deflection to say we’re trying to silence them. It’s more like the minority is trying to silence the majority.

“The more liberal stories that were buried the better chance conservative stories have to get to the front page. I’ll continue to bury their submissions until they change their ways and become conservatives.” -phoenixtx (aka vrayz)


The conlcusion of the show with some, is that this is a pissing contest and in some way it is. 341 people were pissed on in seven weeks.

Let’s resolve this. This can be so simple:


Ole Ole Olson of News Junkie Post:

The facts are:

  • DP got caught cheating red-handed
  • The core members have migrated to some other area to continue with their same activities
  • less active DP members knew it was going on and did NOTHING to stop it
  • Our investigation team has info to back up every allegation
  • if all DP members sign a release, we will release all info to the public unredacted so people can decide for themselves


Seth Stuck said he would sign a release in the Digg comment threads today. Anyone else? Personally, I’d love for the Digg community to see what we’ve seen. Whether your political persuasions are left or right, everyone should judge for themselves. Don’t you want to see this evidence?

You can watch the interview on Banned On The Web by clicking here. You can follow @BannedOnTheWeb on Twitter by clicking here.


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25 comments

By Anomaly – August 11, 2010

  • http://twitter.com/vandahmier/status/21035508245 Bosewell Vandahmier

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  • http://twitter.com/shivabeach/status/20977707337 Shiva

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  • Barry

    @Wingnut: I listened to about half the “Banned on The Web” show and they said that people were on the list who were not active in the group. The other complaint was that the story was taken at face value by the mainstream media without any fact checking. Those were the two salient points that I got from the webcast.

    This is a whole lot of hooplah about nothing. Digg is overwhelmingly liberal and this is about silencing a few conservatives that are on there. The left is all about free speech until you disagree with them.

    As for violating the Digg TOS, I noticed that Seth Struck still has an account there – so he was not banned in spite of whatever the Patriots did.

    And finally, it is my guess that Dilbert was a plant. Like I said the vulgar text in the comments thread was suspect. No true conservative would speak like that. I listened to the people on the webcast and they all sounded like really nice perfectly reasonable people – not right wing extremists.

    If personal email accounts were compromised in the course of the “investigation” – then there was some crimminal conduct going on that should be investigated. If it happened to me, I would be on the phone with my attorney.

    • uncajoe

      From Privacy of E-Mail in the USA
      Copyright 1998 by Ronald B. Standler (I know it’s 12 years old but I think the principles still apply)

      Disclosure of contents of e-mail by the recipient is not a crime, unless there were disclosure of classified material to unauthorized persons.

      Unless the recipient has some duty of confidentiality (e.g., physician-patient, attorney-client, trade secret disclosed in communication), the recipient is free to share the information with anyone.

      If these emails were sent to the discloser, whether first hand or passed on to others it seems that there were no laws broken.

  • http://twitter.com/p2blogs/status/20873033579 P2 Blogs

    From @FreakOutNation Do YOU Want To See The Evidence On The ‘Digg Patriots’?: The ‘Digg Patriots… http://bit.ly/9X9hN0 #p2 #du1 #njp #p2b

  • CosmicSurfer

    THE reality is the little children are guilty as hell – one could hear it, smell it – they couldn’t even keep it straight in their mouths,…the circle jerk of denial is indicative of children caught after breaking mom’s favorite lamp….they were appalled, appalled, I tell you, that someone they had trusted (but of course the speaker never REALLY trusted, him, OH NOES…never…he knew deep in his over bursting God loving heart)

    EXCEPT it wasn’t JUST Dilberto, was it, little darlin’s?

  • http://twitter.com/rankis/status/20861671848 ANDREW

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  • sgt_schultz

    less active DP members knew it was going on and did NOTHING to stop it

    That’s not true. And, you cannot prove it. Want to try. Let’s here it.

  • Kaegro

    I’m a regular Digg.com visitor/poster. These DP guys would usually come by in the middle of the night and spam right wing stuff and would all comment in mass circle jerks. It would have been funny if it wasn’t so scary.

  • Neo

    @sarge – Please put down the beer and rephrase that last line into something comprehensible.

    There are hundreds of communications of “Bury” in evidence. It takes a lot of time to redact the personal information of those involved.

    Unlike the DP group, we won’t try to put anyone in harms way like several of their members did.

    We have morals.

  • http://twitter.com/viewsacrosspond/status/20865929431 Emma

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  • Barry

    I think it is reprehensible that the mainstream media parrotted this story without any due diligence or fact checking. Many of the people on the “list” were not active in the group and are being maligned unfairly.

  • http://twitter.com/cosmic_surfer/status/20876131355 Cosmic Surfer

    RT @FreakOutNation: Do YOU Want To See The Evidence On The 'Digg Patriots'? #p2 #p2b http://is.gd/ecvpx

  • http://FreakOutNation.com Anomaly100

    @Martin, I understand how you feel but we are still trying to protect their privacy, although they did not respect others. They’re attempting to say we don’t have the truth publicly, and my thought is that they would release the evidence without redacting & can’t possibly conceive protecting anyone’s privacy. None of us want to stoop to their level.

  • WingnutSayWhat?

    @Barry, How do you know who was getting these bury lists and who was not? If they knew about it then they’re at fault.

  • bluestocking

    @Barry, I listened to most of the “defense” (not easy!) and didn’t hear anything that contradicted Olson’s story. Anybody who joined the group received all the email and presumably all the members had cause to know what was going on, and they chose to stay in the group–this, especially, in view of the fact that their founder stated right at the outset that he was trying to keep the group’s very existence under the radar.

    If there was an honest purpose for the group then why the secrecy? If it was an honest group, then why shut it down the moment Olson’s piece came out?

  • Barry

    @ UncaJoe I was referring to hacked email accounts not legitimate emails between sender and recipient.

  • Martin

    My .02?
    put it on wiki-leaks verbatim, don’t bother redacting it, let them deal with the fallout their actions create themselves for once.

    Harsh?
    Yes and still less than they deserve, these UnAmerican lying fascists need to be exposed for what and who they are.
    If we are going to find a money trail, we will need all the information anyway.

  • http://FreakOutNation.com Anomaly100

    @Barry, They weren’t hacked and they aren’t emails. This was a group forum. They sent them out to approximately 100 people.

  • bluestocking

    @Barry, these communications according to Olson took place on a Yahoo! group, which sends mass emails. Olsen and co. would not have had access to any emails aside from those on the group, according to his story.

    If indeed Digg users (or even Americans in general) are, in fact, overwhelmingly liberal: democracy doesn’t require equal representation for minority views.

  • http://twitter.com/liam_fox/status/20955113203 Liam Fox

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  • http://twitter.com/bill_lenner/status/20956329088 Bill Lenner

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  • Shiva

    The more they whine, the more you know they have nothing to say. A site is either liberal or conservative based on the inputs into that site. Its obvious that if Digg is overwhelmingly liberal then there are not enough conservatives there to balance. So they cheated and got caught. There isnt any defense. Using silly assumptions like hacked emails about something you obviously know nothing about doesn’t work.

    The answer, if you are a conservative in a liberal world, start your own site. Show you are grown up.

  • http://twitter.com/shivabeach/status/20973200128 Shiva

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  • http://www.wingnutscansuckabagofdicks.com House of Nina

    @sgt_schultz,

    Learn to spell, then you can be trusted to analyze proof.

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